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verb (used with object), stopped or (Archaic) stopt; stop·ping.

to end from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.

to cause to cease; put an stop to: to end noise in the street.

to interrupt, arrest, or check (a grade, proceeding, procedure, etc.): Finish your work just a infinitesimal.

to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies.

to restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually followed by from): I couldn't end him from going.

to prevent from proceeding, interim, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car.

to cake, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (ordinarily followed past upwardly): He stopped up the sink with a newspaper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.

to fill the hole or holes in (a wall, a decayed molar, etc.).

to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, hurl, or the like.

to shut the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.).

Sports.

1. to cheque (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off.
2. to defeat (an opposing player or team): The Browns stopped the Colts.
3. Battle. to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout: Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round.

Banking. to notify a depository financial institution to pass up payment of (a check) upon presentation.

Bridge. to have an honor bill of fare and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit).

Music.

1. to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a current of air musical instrument.
2. to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to modify the pitch of the tone produced from it.
3. to produce (a particular notation) by and so doing.

verb (used without object), stopped or (Archaic) stopt; stop·ping.

to come to a stand up, as in a course or journeying; halt.

to end moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist.

to end; come to an finish.

to halt for a brief visit (often followed by at, in, or by): He is stopping at the all-time hotel in town.

stop by, to make a brief visit on one's manner elsewhere: I'll stop past on my manner home.

noun

the deed of stopping.

a abeyance or arrest of movement, activeness, performance, etc.; terminate: The noise came to a terminate. Put a stop to that behavior!

a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journeying: To a higher place all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste.

a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and belch passengers: Is this a bus stop?

a closing or filling upward, as of a hole.

a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.

a plug or other stopper for an opening.

an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.

any piece or device that serves to cheque or command motion or action in a mechanism.

Architecture. a characteristic terminating a molding or chamfer.

Commerce.

1. an order to pass up payment of a bank check.
2. stop gild.

Music.

1. the human activity of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a item notation.
2. a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this.
3. (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.
4. Also called finish knob. a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed dorsum to allow or preclude the sounding of such a fix of pipes or to control some other part of the organ.
5. (in a reed organ) a group of reeds operation similar a pipe-organ stop.

Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball game, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.

Nautical. a piece of minor line used to lash or spike something, as a furled canvas.

Phonetics.

1. an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs.
2. a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, equally p, b, t, d, 1000, and m. Compare continuant.

Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, especially every bit indicated past an f- number.

whatsoever of various marks used equally punctuation at the cease of a sentence, specially a period.

the word "finish" printed in the trunk of a telegram or buzzer to indicate a period.

stops, (used with a singular verb) a family of carte du jour games whose object is to play all of one'due south cards in a predetermined sequence before 1's opponents.

Zoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marking the division between the brow and the projecting part of the cage.

Verb Phrases

stop down, Photography. (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens).

stop in, to make a brief, incidental visit: If you're in boondocks, exist certain to stop in.

stop off, to halt for a cursory stay at some point on the way elsewhere: On the way to Rome nosotros stopped off at Florence.

stop out,

1. to mask (certain areas of an etching plate, photographic negative, etc.) with varnish, paper, or the like, to preclude their being etched, printed, etc.
2. to withdraw temporarily from school: Nigh of the students who end out eventually return to go their degrees.

stop over, to stop briefly in the form of a journeying: Many motorists were forced to stop over in that town because of floods.

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Idioms about stop

pull out all the stops,

1. to utilize every means available.
2. to express, practice, or acquit out something without reservation.

Origin of end

before yard; Centre English language stoppen (v.), Old English -stoppian (in forstoppian to stop up); cognate with Dutch, Low German stoppen,German stopfen; all ≪ Vulgar Latin *stuppāre to plug with oakum, derivative of Latin stuppa coarse hemp or flax <Greek stýppē

synonym study for cease

3. Stop, abort, check, halt imply causing a cessation of movement or progress (literal or figurative). Cease is the general term for the idea: to stop a clock. Arrest usually refers to stopping by imposing a sudden and consummate restraint: to arrest development. Check implies bringing almost an abrupt, partial, or temporary end: to check a trotting equus caballus. To halt means to make a temporary stop, especially one resulting from a command: to halt a visitor of soldiers.

OTHER WORDS FROM stop

stopless, describing word stop·less·ness, noun mul·ti·terminate, adjective

Words nearby stop

stoop ball, stoop labor, stoop to, stoor, stoozing, finish, terminate and frisk, cease-and-go, stop at nothing, stopbank, stop bath

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Words related to stop

bar, block, interruption, decision, suspension, destination, halt, stage, station, stopover, end, close, drop, end, agree, kill, put an end to, quit, stall, stand

How to use cease in a sentence

• Now I have a plausible explanation for how I experience, putting a stop to some of the second-guessing going on in my head.

• It seems like he'due south going to keep to do this until someone puts a finish to it.

• That hope was enough to quell a few lawsuits filed by California groups against the federal authorities for failing to put a stop to the sewage-filled stormwater rolling from Mexico'south hills.

• The agency issued a stop sale, use or removal order, which is supposed to prevent the visitor from selling its production.

• The chair of the Uptown Customs Parking Commune board proposed using the funds for cleaning bus endsouth, but the urban center said no.

• Merely I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to terminate a nuclear flop from going off or something.

• That ground hold was to end y'all flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

• Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the railroad train immediately.

• The men were accused of reneging on pledges to finish working for the Iraqi government.

• Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic information technology set loose on the earth?

• "But I can't cease to debate about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.

• At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.

• He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatsoever to finish the thief.

• The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.

• Yet when I stop gazing the side by side impulse is to move on; for if I have time to rest anywhere, why not at home?

British Dictionary definitions for finish

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verb stops, stopping or stopped

to cease from doing or being (something); discontinue finish talking

to cause (something moving) to halt or (of something moving) to come to a halt to terminate a car; the car stopped

(tr) to preclude the continuance or completion of to stop a show

(tr oftentimes foll by from) to prevent or restrain to end George from fighting

(tr) to continue back to cease supplies to the navy

(tr) to intercept or hinder in transit to stop a letter

(tr often foll by up) to cake or plug, esp and so as to close to stop upward a pipe

(tr frequently foll past upward) to fill a pigsty or opening in to terminate up a wall

(tr) to staunch or stalk to stop a wound

(tr) to instruct a bank not to honour (a cheque)

(tr) to deduct (money) from pay

(tr) British to provide with punctuation

(tr) battle to beat (an opponent) either by a knockout or a technical knockout

(tr) informal to receive (a blow, hit, etc)

(intr) to stay or rest we stopped at the Robinsons' for iii nights

(tr) rare to defeat, beat out, or kill

(tr) music

1. to alter the vibrating length of (a string on a violin, guitar, etc) past pressing down on information technology at some point with the finger
2. to alter the vibrating length of an air column in a wind instrument by closing (a finger hole, etc)
3. to produce (a notation) in this way

(tr) to place a manus inside (the bell of a French horn) to modify the tone colour and pitch or play (a note) on a French horn in such a manner

bridge to have a protecting bill of fare or winner in (a adapt in which one's opponents are potent)

terminate at goose egg to exist prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless

substantive

an arrest of movement or progress

the act of stopping or the country of being stopped

a place where something halts or pauses a double-decker finish

a stay in or as if in the form of a journey

the human activity or an example of blocking or obstructing

a plug or stopper

a block, screw, or other device or object that prevents, limits, or terminates the motility of a mechanism or moving role

British a punctuation marking, esp a full stop

Also called: stop thrust fencing a counterthrust fabricated without a parry in the hope that i'southward blade will touch before 1'southward opponent's bract

music

1. the deed of stopping the string, finger hole, etc, of an musical instrument
2. a gear up of organ pipes or harpsichord strings that may be allowed to sound as a group by muffling or silencing all other such sets
3. a knob, lever, or handle on an organ, etc, that is operated to let sets of pipes to sound
4. an analogous device on a harpsichord or other instrument with variable registers, such as an electrophonic instrument

pull out all the stops

1. to play at full volume
2. to spare no endeavor

Australian a stud on a football kick

the angle between the brow and muzzle of a dog or cat, regarded every bit a point in convenance

nautical a short length of line or small stuff used as a tie, esp for a furled sail

Also chosen: end consonant phonetics whatever of a class of consonants articulated by first making a consummate closure at some point of the song tract and then releasing it abruptly with audible plosion. Stops include the labials (p, b), the alveolars or dentals (t, d), the velars (k, yard) Compare continuant

Also called: f-finish photog

1. a setting of the aperture of a camera lens, calibrated to the corresponding f-number
2. another name for diaphragm (def. 4)

a cake or carving used to consummate the cease of a moulding

Too called: stopper bridge a protecting card or winner in a suit in which one's opponents are strong

Derived forms of stop

stoppable, describing word

Give-and-take Origin for stop

C14: from Old English language stoppian (unattested), equally in forstoppian to plug the ear, ultimately from Late Latin stuppāre to cease with a tow, from Latin stuppa tow, from Greek stuppē

Collins English Lexicon - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with stop

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In addition to the idioms first with stop

• stop at aught
• terminate by
• stop cold
• stop in
• stop off
• end payment
• stop curt
• cease someone's clock
• stop the clock
• stop up

too come across:

• buck stops here
• pull out all the stops
• put an cease (a stop) to

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published past Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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